Okechukwu Francis Egwuonwu
San Jose,CA
Summary
A tech enthused nurse informaticist with over 15 years' experience in acute and critical care nursing, and over 5 years' experience supporting healthcare infrastructures with management of health information, project planning and execution, building, deployment, update, maintenance and troubleshooting systems, group and user permissions. Goal oriented with keen attention to detail.
I am desirous to join, learn and support an esteemed innovative team that will contribute to my career growth and objectives.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
System Administrator
Git-Go Technology
Westminister, MD
02.2022 - Current
- Create, purpose, repurpose, clone, export and migrate Windows, RHEL/RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, operating system (OS) VMWare ESXi virtualization, virtual machines (VMs) on hypervisors.
- Disk management including Extending partitions, purpose and present disk storage on windows and Linux virtual machines with permission variance for thick or thin provisioning to optimize storage management and productivity.
- Set up network storage solutions including DNS, NAS, NFS, secured with Kerberos to enhance data security.
- Physical management and troubleshooting of system components including but not limited to processors, lithium CMO batteries, cabling, memory disks, motherboards, PCI slots, NIC, and cooling systems.
- Perform hot and cold fix system maintenance and trouble shooting.
- Executed system patching and updates alongside backups and migrations to ensure operational efficiency and facilitate seamless disaster recovery for Windows and Linux systems.
- Creating and managing active directory domain services including clusters, nodes, pods, containers, groups, and users utilizing access control list for actualization of enterprise goals.
- Create, assign permissions, manage, and troubleshoot groups and user accounts in production environments in windows and Linux systems.
- Utilizing the grub command to harden Linux system servers.
- Yum repository management and configuration of packages or services for download to ensure utilization of the most up-to-date stable version of services for installation that can be supported by the facility systems.
- Applied access control restrictions to files and directories using access control lists (ACL)
- configuration, installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of service applications like apache tomcat, httpd, cockpit, mariadb, nagios log server, nagios core, nagios xi, Grafana, performance copilot (PCP), nginx.
- Setting up, troubleshooting and monitoring of security and log management applications including nagioslog servers, Rsyslog, log rotate, nagioslog core, ansible or cron job scripting on tail command.
- Preparing bashscripts for creation and management of user/group accounts, setting passwords, permissions, privileges, and account expiration.
- User account security monitoring for repeated login fails and authentication attempts.
- Configured Grafana for visual monitoring of critical events in a production environment.
- Good knowledge of network and cloud computing. Setting up firewalls, gateways, proxys, TCP, UDP, honey pots, database, DMZ, load balancer, business continuity plans, and Microsoft Azure, powershell.
- Set up and utilize nagios log servers script for index querying to monitor logs and send notifications to action persons for prompt actions and resultant system sustainability.
- Troubleshoot and manage services within a network with systemctl command.
- Assign permissions to dev teams for specific privileges on systemctl command for independent troubleshoots of application servers in the lower environment.
- Efficiently manage and monitor log activities in var/log for system health and security management.
- Ensure system high availability by setting up and maintaining a secured and healthy system with appropriate CPU, storage, swap, and memory provisioned in linux and windows systems, cleaning cache as needed, compressing recurring files, managing the speed and bandwidth on NAS and building systems with an insight on the potential users.
- Manage systems security by ensuring application of access control list for user privileges and permissions, setting up SElinux on application servers, use grub1 command to lock access to linux console and root account, prevent root users to ssh into a systems, regular system maintenance.
IT Specialist/Linux Admin
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Queens
01.2021 - 02.2022
- Created a script that monitored and generated weekly reports of logs that tracked user compliance to documentation and procedural protocols utilized for quality improvement campaign that reduced avoidable medical errors and improved patients' safety and the quality of care across clinical disciplines.
- Managed and stored medical records, enabling interoperability in health record transcription across systems through universal permissions.
- Utilized Access Control List (ACL) to set user and group account permissions and privileges to ensure security of health information and enable safe healthcare delivery based on job description.
- Established ACL permission and privilege rules, ensuring compliance with HIPAA security regulations for electronic health records.
- Supported and monitored storage utilizing NAS, SAN, NFS, and clusters of nodes for high availability, security and system health.
- Designed, and integrated remote clinical monitoring tools with bar-coding links to clients medical numbers associated patients clinical data sets to electronic medical records in the production environment.
- Monitored and reported user compliance log events in the clinical area like failed or omitted patients and medication bar-coding for care implementation, or failure to act on best practice clinical advisory alerts.
- Collaborated with the dev-ops team to troubleshoot clinical devices.
- Developed onboarding program with automation scripts for user and group account creation, defining permissions and password management, streamlining new employee integration.
Operation Support/SRE
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston
03.2020 - 01.2021
- Function as an onsite operation support for troubleshooting of electronic clinical equipment and computers.
- Managed and stored medical records with universal permissions to allow interoperability in the transcription of health records across medical record systems.
- Participated in designing, installation and introduction of care improvement technological tools associated with electronic medical record system that increased better patient outcomes.
- Monitored and reported user compliance log events in the clinical area like failed or omitted patients and medication bar-coding for care implementation, or failure to act on best practice clinical advisory alerts.
- Commissioned and decommissioned onsite computers on wheels in the clinical area.
- Investigated and identified the root cause of EMR user issues and provided detailed solutions for improvement on common user issues.
- Developed scripts to automate detection and resolution of production and network issues including storage, and security threats enabling production environment high availability and system reliability.
- Applied automation scripts for monitoring logs and security for HIPAA security regulations.
- Participated in setting up bar-coding system for association of clinical gadgets to electronic health record system for real time transmission of clinical diet and product or client identification.
IT Support/Tech Analyst
Gurthrie Robert Parker Hospital
Sayre
05.2019 - 03.2020
- Deployed scripts to monitor and generate weekly compliance reports, reducing avoidable medical errors and enhancing patient safety and quality across clinical disciplines.
- Provided on-call support to clinical and non-clinical staff for resolving user and group account passwords and permission issues.
- Implemented and monitored security protocols that supports Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security requirements in the electronic health record environment.
- Managed and stored medical records with universal permissions to allow interoperability in the transcription of health records across medical record systems.
- Supported in the designing and deployment of facility specific clinical protocols in workflow sheets for clinical documentation.
- Led research study developing and testing user-friendly documentation flowsheets for assessing, diagnosing, planning, and implementing nutritional interventions for under-nourished adult patients, improving patient experience and outcomes.
- Participated in implementing scripts for best practice clinical alerts that helps in early detection of high risk for malnutrition in admitted patients.
- Deployment of scripts for real-time monitoring of storage, system performance and alert set up for prompt actions to optimize production.
- Monitoring of systems and networks for security threats.
Education
Masters of Science - Nursing Informatics
Grand Canyon University
Phoenix12-2023
Bachelor's degree - Nursing
Grand Canyon University
Phoenix11-2020
Certification Course - Neurologic Emergencies
Havard Medical Scool
Boston, MA10-2014
Associate of Science - Nursing
School of Nursing NAUTH
11-2011
Skills
- Effective leadership
- Time management
- Interpersonal relations
- Team player
- VMware creation
- IP address configuration
- VMware mirroring
- Export
- Cloning
- Migration
- Disk management
- Computer management
- Logical volume management
- NAS
- SAN
- NFS
- Active Directory Domain services
- User account management
- User privileges management
- Yum repository configuration
- System update
- Application server configuration
- Application server maintenance
- Application server troubleshooting
- System security checks
- Threat detection
- Linux hardening
- Cron job setup
- Log monitoring
- Alert system
- Storage monitoring
Certification
• SCRUM MASTER
• Basic Life Support
• ACLS
• Basic Life Support
• ACLS
Timeline
System Administrator
Git-Go Technology
02.2022 - Current
IT Specialist/Linux Admin
New York Presbyterian Hospital
01.2021 - 02.2022
Operation Support/SRE
Houston Methodist Hospital
03.2020 - 01.2021
IT Support/Tech Analyst
Gurthrie Robert Parker Hospital
05.2019 - 03.2020
Masters of Science - Nursing Informatics
Grand Canyon University
Bachelor's degree - Nursing
Grand Canyon University
Certification Course - Neurologic Emergencies
Havard Medical Scool
Associate of Science - Nursing
School of Nursing NAUTH